Verle
Verle was last recorded in 1978, when 6 babies were given it; 2,279 Americans have been recorded with it between 1890 and 1978 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Verle by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Verle?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #5,741, in 1978; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
96 babies in 1920, the peak
Verle peaked in 1920, when 96 babies were given it (64 boys, #852 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1978 | under 5 | 6 | #5,741 | |
| 1970 | under 5 | 8 | #3,819 | |
| 1968 | under 5 | 5 | #4,719 | |
| 1967 | under 5 | 5 | #4,524 | |
| 1966 | under 5 | 7 | #3,526 | |
| 1965 | under 5 | 6 | #3,909 | |
| 1964 | under 5 | 10 | #2,841 | |
| 1963 | under 5 | 13 | #2,407 | |
| 1962 | under 5 | 8 | #3,291 | |
| 1961 | under 5 | 8 | #3,338 |
Every recorded year (71)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | under 5 | 17 | #2,032 | |
| 1959 | under 5 | 8 | #3,277 | |
| 1958 | under 5 | 14 | #2,259 | |
| 1957 | under 5 | 20 | #1,831 | |
| 1956 | under 5 | 14 | #2,255 | |
| 1955 | under 5 | 18 | #1,900 | |
| 1954 | under 5 | 13 | #2,312 | |
| 1953 | under 5 | 14 | #2,181 | |
| 1952 | under 5 | 20 | #1,746 | |
| 1951 | under 5 | 18 | #1,832 | |
| 1950 | under 5 | 17 | #1,875 | |
| 1949 | under 5 | 23 | #1,580 | |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,993 | 19 | #1,754 |
| 1947 | under 5 | 26 | #1,478 | |
| 1946 | under 5 | 21 | #1,598 | |
| 1945 | under 5 | 29 | #1,246 | |
| 1944 | under 5 | 26 | #1,325 | |
| 1943 | under 5 | 27 | #1,364 | |
| 1942 | under 5 | 32 | #1,241 | |
| 1941 | under 5 | 31 | #1,208 | |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,987 | 33 | #1,181 |
| 1939 | under 5 | 39 | #1,031 | |
| 1938 | 7 | #3,825 | 31 | #1,196 |
| 1937 | under 5 | 40 | #1,012 | |
| 1936 | 6 | #4,148 | 48 | #892 |
| 1935 | 8 | #3,410 | 44 | #967 |
| 1934 | 9 | #3,144 | 44 | #968 |
| 1933 | 13 | #2,394 | 51 | #874 |
| 1932 | 9 | #3,256 | 51 | #914 |
| 1931 | 9 | #3,207 | 52 | #900 |
| 1930 | 14 | #2,415 | 44 | #1,050 |
| 1929 | 14 | #2,424 | 48 | #982 |
| 1928 | 21 | #1,890 | 58 | #882 |
| 1927 | 13 | #2,687 | 44 | #1,077 |
| 1926 | 22 | #1,879 | 45 | #1,049 |
| 1925 | 20 | #2,007 | 39 | #1,141 |
| 1924 | 25 | #1,766 | 47 | #1,044 |
| 1923 | 22 | #1,891 | 54 | #939 |
| 1922 | 19 | #2,098 | 52 | #990 |
| 1921 | 26 | #1,720 | 55 | #952 |
| 1920 | 32 | #1,436 | 64 | #852 |
| 1919 | 25 | #1,646 | 43 | #1,044 |
| 1918 | 24 | #1,685 | 41 | #1,078 |
| 1917 | 26 | #1,503 | 44 | #995 |
| 1916 | 14 | #2,360 | 47 | #938 |
| 1915 | 17 | #1,957 | 42 | #978 |
| 1914 | 24 | #1,300 | 22 | #1,299 |
| 1913 | 13 | #1,760 | 12 | #1,668 |
| 1912 | 7 | #2,614 | 17 | #1,171 |
| 1911 | 10 | #1,649 | 8 | #1,377 |
| 1910 | 5 | #2,765 | under 5 | |
| 1909 | 9 | #1,598 | under 5 | |
| 1908 | 7 | #1,850 | 11 | #873 |
| 1907 | 5 | #2,375 | under 5 | |
| 1906 | under 5 | 5 | #1,400 | |
| 1905 | 8 | #1,527 | under 5 | |
| 1904 | 5 | #2,150 | under 5 | |
| 1898 | 5 | #1,959 | under 5 | |
| 1895 | 7 | #1,420 | under 5 | |
| 1893 | 6 | #1,429 | under 5 | |
| 1890 | 5 | #1,519 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Verle a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,279 Americans recorded as Verle, 23% are girls and 77% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Verle: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Verle, and how old are they?
An estimated 365 Americans named Verle and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (16% of everyone recorded); the median is 77 years old and half are between 69 and 85. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 709 people named Verle (108 women and girls, 601 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 549 born in the U.S. The Census count is 29% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Verle born?
The states with the most babies named Verle are Iowa, Kansas and Illinois, with 91% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Iowa and Kansas are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Iowa | 260 | not ranked | 5.7× |
| Kansas | 120 | not ranked | 3.6× |
| Illinois | 43 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Nebraska | 17 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Minnesota | 15 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Ohio | 5 | not ranked | 0.0× |
| South Dakota | 5 | not ranked | 0.4× |
Where Verle is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Verle is most over-represented in Iowa: since 1910 it was given 5.7 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Verle with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Verle
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Verle and names like it
- Compare Verle and OzellBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sVerle peaked in 1920.
- Iowa’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Verle since 1910.
- The top names of 1920The year the most babies were named Verle.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Verle alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with VMost given first.